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GOALS ===== This module studies Rashis treatment of classical grammar. In other words how did Rashi treat the rules you find in modern LEARN-HEBREW textbooks TODAYS UNIT =========== In todays unit we switch gears. Prior to this unit we have been focusing on the grammatical conjugation of verbs. We now move on to other grammatical areas. Today we review a well known alternative form of indicating TO WHERE one is journeying. (For convenience we include the examples from yesterday) REFERENCE: ========= Todays unit comes from the following postings http://www.RashiYomi.Com/gn44-13b.htm

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ALTERNATIVE TO THE WORD to
-- FROM YESTERDAY -- EXAMPLE 77: Gn14-10b Going TO A PLACE can be indicated by HEY EXAMPLE 78: Gn28-02a Going TO A PLACE can be indicated by HEY EXAMPLE 79: Gn28-02b Going TO A PLACE can be indicated by HEY -- NEW -- EXAMPLE 80: Gn44-13b Going TO A PLACE can be indicated by HEY EXAMPLE 81: Gn46-01a Going TO A PLACE can be indicated by HEY BACKGROUND: ----------- If you are GOING or COMING to e.g. New York you would say ----------------------- I AM GOING TO NEW YORK ----------------------- An alternative form (in Hebrew) is to append a HEY sound to the end of the word ---------------------------------------------------- I am going NEW YORK-eh ENGLISH ANi HoLayCh NuYork--Ah HEBREW ---------------------------------------------------- THE TEXT AND RASHI ------------------ Rashi on various verses containing terminal HEYS points out that this terminal HEY is a substitute for the word TO THE LIST -------- The LIST below presents several such examples of this rule. The footnotes elaborate on further details. The first 3 examples are from yesterdays unit. The last 2 examples are new
VERSE:	TEXT OF VERSE OF GOING TO A PLACE	HEY FORM OF to
Gn14-10b	The remnant FLED TO THE MOUNTAIN	Fled MOUNTAIN-ah
Gn28-02b	GO TO..THE HOUSE of Betuel	GoTo HOUSeh Betuel
Gn28-02a	GO TO PADEN ARAM*1	GoTo PADENah ARAM
Gn46-01a	& they CAME TO BEER SHEVA*1	CAME BEER-ah SHEVA
Gn44-13b	they RETURNED TO THE CITY*2	RETURNED CITY-ah

COMMENTS
1 Note how Rashi develops a subrule on this verse The HEY rule applies to places with one word names This verse (Gn28-02) contains a 2-word name: PADEN ARAM One needs to know whether to place the HEY after the 1st or 2nd word. Rashi tells us to place the hey after the 1st word: PADEN-ah ARAM (not: PADEN ARAMah). Similarly in Gn46-01 it is BEERah SHEVVA vs BEER SHEVA-ah 2 Note Rashis pedagogical genius. Up till now Rashi has simply stated two APPARENTLY EQUIVALANT ways of indicating TO -- GO TO EGYPT -- GO EGYPT-ah On Gn44-13 Rashi explains a subtle difference between the two methods: -- The TO form has an emphasis on ACTUALLY GETTING THERE -- The HEY form has an emphasis on the DIRECTION of motion So Gn44-13, THEY RETURNED THE CITY-ah indicates that they RETURNED TO THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY but did not necessarily enter the city proper. This would make sense: They were accused of robbery---under such circumstances they did not want to risk coming into the city.

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